Federal Labor joins with the chorus of state-based and national transport associations calling for the road freight transport industry to be nationally recognised as an essential service and for the Morrison-Joyce Government to work closely with transport unions and businesses to incentivise as many workers to be vaccinated as soon as possible. Eighteen months into

If you want to know about the Morrison-Joyce Government’s management of the Inland Rail project, you just have to read the title of the Senate report – “Inland Rail: derailed from the start”. This project has been derailed from the start by Coalition mismanagement. This report reaffirms the importance of this project, while highlighting the

Josh Frydenberg is up to his neck in the Morrison Government’s shameless $660 million ‘pork and ride’ cash splash, promising four new car parks in his own electorate but delivering none. The Treasurer himself allocated a tenth of this rorted scheme to his own electorate and he’s been sprung promising hundreds of new parking spaces for

E&OE TRANSCRIPTDOORSTPOP INTERVIEWCANBERRAWEDNESDAY, 4 AUGUST 2021  SUBJECTS: Car park rorts; 20 Most Marginal seats list; Minister Tudge and Prime Minister’s Office role in rorts scandal: Labor’s anti-rorting legislation; Strength in Multicultural Communities ANDREW GILES, SHADOW MINISTER FOR CITIES AND URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE: This morning we saw Alan Tudge run away from questions, well Minister Tudge can

The Government has tabled a signed ministerial brief in which Paul Fletcher describes the scandalous purchase of the Leppington Triangle for $30 million as “perfectly sensible”. The document underlines the Morrison Government’s inept management of major infrastructure projects and its ongoing misuse of taxpayer funds and raises serious questions that deserve answers. Addressed to the

E&OE TRANSCRIPT TELEVISION INTERVIEW CAPITAL HILLMONDAY, 3 AUGUST 2021 SUBJECTS: Qantas workers stood down; Vaccine and quarantine. MATTHEW DORAN, HOST: Catherine King, good afternoon to you. I want to get to that Qantas announcement shortly, but let’s start with this extra support for the aviation sector. Do you think it goes far enough? CATHERINE KING, SHADOW

E&OE TRANSCRIPT DOORSTOP INTERVIEW PARLIAMENT HOUSE, CANBERRA TUESDAY, 3 AUGUST 2021 SUBJECTS: Qantas workers stood down; Vaccine and quarantine. CATHERINE KING, SHADOW MINISTER FOR INFRASTRUCTURE, TRANSPORT AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT: I just wanted to make some comments about the decision today by Qantas to stand down two and a half thousand of its workforce for at least the next

If Scott Morrison had done his two jobs of rolling out the vaccine and fixing hotel quarantine, today’s stop-gap extension of aviation support would never have been needed. Because of the Prime Minister’s failings, two of Australia’s biggest cities are in lockdown, state borders have slammed shut, and planes are sitting idle at airports around

E&OE TRANSCRIPT TELEVISION INTERVIEWSKY NEWS WITH SHARRI MARKSONSUNDAY, 25 JULY 2021 SUBJECTS: Vaccines; lockdowns; leadership. SHARRI MARKSON, HOST: Let’s start with this never-ending lockdown in New South Wales, the case numbers aren’t moving, they’re well above 100 every single day. Jason, realistically, do you think we’re looking at an extended lockdown situation here? JASON FALINSKI, MEMBER

Reports that Australian aviation workers are facing the prospect of further job losses is devastating news to workers across the country. Aviation workers are essential workers, but like so many other Australians, they have been forgotten by the Morrison Government. Before the latest wave of infections, the Morrison Government had already overseen the loss of